Your Symbol of Eternity

Your wedding  ring is the most recognisable symbol that you have become husband and wife. To feel it on your finger will remind you of the love that you share, even when you are apart.

The wedding ring dates back to the ancient Egyptians of around 4,800 years ago, when the first rings were braided from rushes and reeds from the river Nile. The Egyptians believed the ring, shaped in a circle, stood as the symbol for eternity. Like time, it had no beginning and no end. They also believed that the space inside the ring symbolised a gateway, or door, leading to things and events both known and unknown.

They wore it like we do today on the third finger of the left hand because of a belief that the vein of that finger directly travelled to the heart. This legend was later taken up by the Greeks, then passed onto the Romans, who called this the 'vena amoris' which is Latin for the 'the vein of love'.

This may or not be a myth, but for romantics all over the world young or old, this is the reason they will always wear their wedding ring on their fourth finger of their left hand.